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IC.782.039
10 Oct 1782:12,13 (15/762)
The last Madrid Gazette, has the following article: By
dispatches which arrived here on the 24th of June, the Court
have received the most important intelligence from the West
Indies, stating that his Majesty's forces, commanded by Don
Galves, had entirely driven the English from their
establishment, both in the interior parts of Honduras, and
from the very remotest possession they enjoyed in any
quarter of South America; that the Spanish commander had had
the good fortune to establish a peace with the Indians who
inhabit the country known by the name of Moscos and Zinbas,
who have been for upwards of a century in close alliance
with the English, and have on various occasions done the
greatest mischief to the subjects of his Catholic Majesty
settled in those districts, and that an entire and perfect
tranquility had been restored in Peru, and the other
revolted colonies of South-America. This agreeable
information was immediately communicated to the foreign
ministers, and orders were issued for singing Te Deum in all
the churches of Madrid, and for general illuminations, and
other demonstrations of joy, for three successive days.
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